Posting my comment here if it can help others.
Running
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit
Crossover Linux
MS Office 2003 Word/Excel/Powerpoint in one bottle
MS Project 2003 (2nd bottle)
MS Visio 2003 (3rd bottle)
Thunderbird 3.0.4
I get many emails with attached documents that I want to open with their applicable MS Office product without having to save the file and opening it either by double-clicking it, or doing a File > Open from the menus.
- Launch Thunderbird
- Click/navigate the menus to Edit > Preferences > Attachments
- For each respective Content Type entry (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation) click the Action entry (mine defaulted to "Always Ask") and select "Use other".
- Navigate to the bottle and launcher in the bottle to use (e.g. "/home/YOUR_NAME_HERE/.cxoffice/Microsoft Visio 2003/desktopdata/cxmenu/StartMenu.C^5E3A^5Fusers^5Fcrossover^5FStart^2BMenu/Programs/Microsoft+Office/Microsoft+Office+Visio+2003" and note that the .cxoffice directory in your home directory MAY be hidden. Click Ctrl-H to unhide them or find the option in your file navigator of choice to show the hidden files/directories)
- Do steps 3 and 4 for each entry for which you want to set the Crossover application.
- Click Close when done.
- Click on an email attachment and select "Open"
- Enjoy hours of productive messaging!
Karl